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Ted Shaw Appointed Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of UNC Center for Civil Rights.

Eminent civil rights attorney and Center for Civil Rights founder, the late Julius L. Chambers, at a conference in his honor.

The Center for Civil Rights represents clients in a historically excluded African American community in an Equal Protection and Fair Housing claim against Brunswick County.

This report documents the impacts of racial exclusion in communities across NC. The project focuses on housing, education, environmental justice, political exclusion and access to infrastructure.

Center attorneys and UNC Law students outside Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals after Center's oral arguments in Pitt County School Desegregation Case.

May 2012, Halifax, NC: Press Conference marking one-year anniversary of Center’s report, “Unless Our Children Begin to Work Together, The State of Education in Halifax County.”

The UNC Center for Civil Rights is committed to the advancement of civil rights and social justice, especially in the American South. It fosters empirical and analytical research, sponsors student inquiry and activities and convenes faculty, visiting scholars, policy advocates and practicing attorneys to confront legal and social issues of greatest concern to racial and ethnic minorities, to the poor and to other potential beneficiaries of civil rights advances. The Center's work focuses on education, housing and community development, economic justice and voting rights.

Center recognized as a 2015 "Defender of Justice"

The Center for Civil Rights is honored to be recognized as a 2015 "Defender of Justice" with an award for Litigation at the 17th Annual Defender of Justice Awards Banquet. The North Carolina Justice Center recognizes individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to improving the lives of poor and working North Carolinians. The Center for Civil Rights is being recognized for dedication to expanding opportunity and prosperity for all North Carolinians.

April 10 | Solitary Confinement Program | Event will address the efforts to address solitary confinement as a national and state problem that has been deemed to be a form of cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment that often amounts to torture | UNC School of Law | Room 4085 | Chapel Hill, NC | 1:00 p.m.

May 14 | 17th Annual Defender of Justice Awards | The UNC Center for Civil Rights is being honored for significant contributions in the area of litigation | Tickets will be available beginning March 30 from the NC Justice Center | William and Ida Friday Center | 100 Friday Center Drive | Chapel Hill, NC | 6:00 p.m.

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